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Baroque Naples: A Documentary History 1600-1800 - A documentary history of Naples First Printing edition
Jeanne Chenault Porter
Baroque Naples: A Documentary History 1600-1800 - A documentary history of Naples First Printing edition
Jeanne Chenault Porter
"Baroque Naples" presents documents on the history, culture, and art of the city during its golden age of prestige and prosperity under the Spanish Hapsburgs and Bourbons. Texts cover the history of the city and kingdom, contemporary travel guides, descriptions of the city's art, architecture and classical inheritance, its literature, music and theater. There are also chapters that offer texts by the famed Neapolitan economists, legal thinkers and philosophers of the age; a survey of religious thought, and of the Neapolitan contribution to the natural sciences. The selections are preceded by brief introductions to the writers and the ideas presented in the texts. Sixty-nine selections include Enrico Bacco, John Evelyn, Salvator Rosa, Luigi Vanvitelli, the Neapolitan "Marinisti," Pietro Trapassi (Metastasio), Giovanni Battista Della Porta, Antonio Serra, Giuseppe Palmieri, Gaetano Filangieri, Tommaso Campanella, Giambattista Vico, Fynes Moryson and many others. The volume also includes brief biographies and chronologies. 60 illustrations, 3 maps, introduction, bibliography, index.
302 pages, 1, black & white illustrations
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 25 février 2010 |
Date de publication originale | 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780934977524 |
Éditeurs | Italica Press |
Pages | 302 |
Dimensions | 217 × 140 × 23 mm · 385 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
Éditeur | Porter, Jeanne Chenault |
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